BIB_ID
127770
Accession number
MA 489.44
Creator
Posey, Thomas, 1750-1818.
Display Date
1782 Apr. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Hon'le / Majr. Genl. Greene."
Endorsed on verso.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Endorsed on verso.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Requesting shirts, overhalls and shoes for his men; saying that as to the quantity he has requested, "you will please to observe there is no more inserted than what will barely complete each man with one article of each kind : could it be possible to furnish the detachment with two of each kind of the articles of Shirts and overhalls it would give the men a proper change and occasion those articles to last double as long. I Suppose by the time the shoes will arrive every man I have will be entirely without." .
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